Quotation Saturday

I know what lies around the corner in my life -- I peeked. ~joni

CHANGE/CHOICE

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
-Aldous Huxley

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
-Viktor Frankl

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
-Nathaniel Braden

“A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.”
-Denis Waitley

ON WRITING:

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other comes from a strong won't.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
-Ursula K. Le Guin

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
-Gaston Bachelard

ON LIFE:

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.
-Christopher Reeve
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
-Kurt Vonnegut